Fitch Ratings upgrades Givens Estates’ IDR to ‘A-’ … Pennsylvania Department of Health reports 90 COVID-19-specific nursing home investigations in April … “Compassion, Community, Caring”...
Pandemic means 41,000 fewer senior housing units could be needed: analysis
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 18, 2021
COVID-19 deaths have curtailed short-term supply needs for senior housing. The projected senior housing units needed to serve those 85 or older in 2021 are less than pre-pandemic estimates by as many as...
Employment (CARE) Opportunity Act would invest $1B in direct care workforce
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 12, 2021
The Direct Creation, Advancement, and Retention of Employment (CARE) Opportunity Act would invest more than $1 billion over five years in training and increasing opportunities for the direct care workforce,...
Union workers picket outside Pennsylvania nursing facilities
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 26, 2021
More than 4,000 union workers in Pennsylvania picketed outside of nursing homes Tuesday in protest of what they said are decades-old nursing regulations in need of updating.
LTC unions urge CDC to revise masking guidance for vaccinated individuals to protect workers
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 21, 2021
Unions representing registered nurses and others who work in long-term care are urging the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to reconsider its May 13 guidance on mask-wearing and social distancing...
CCRC occupancy trends lower but better than non-CCRCs: analysis
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 25, 2021
Occupancy in continuing care retirement communities fell 1.4 percentage points from the fourth quarter to 84.3% through the first quarter of 2021, according to data released Friday by the National Investment...
Congress calls for Provider Relief Fund deadline extension, clear guidelines
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 20, 2021
Unless the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or Congress take action to extend the Provider Relief Fund deadline past June 30, providers must use or lose those dollars they have received for...
‘We are seeing the green shoots of recovery,’ Brookdale CEO says
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 20, 2021
Brookdale Senior Living is “seeing the green shoots of recovery,” President and CEO Lucinda “Cindy” Baier said yesterday at the Capital Markets Global Health Care Conference.
Proposed law would enable some older workers to stay in jobs longer
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 12, 2021
Older Medicaid beneficiaries who are working and have disabilities no longer would need to retire at 65 to continue receiving benefits, under proposed legislation. The Supporting And Empowering the Nation...
COVID vaccine increases adult children’s openness to senior living for parents: survey
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 26, 2021
The availability of the COVID-19 vaccine makes adult children more open to senior living communities for their parents than they were a year ago, but the vaccine doesn’t have as strong of an effect on...